Patterson, Joseph A., a Presbyterian minister, was born near Acadcmia, Juniata County, Pa., in 1833. He received his preparatory education at Tuscarora Academy, and in 1853 entered Lafayette College, Pa. After graduating, he spent a year teaching in Tusca- rora Academy, and while there, and during a great re- vival, he received a fresh baptism, which, along with other influences, determined him to study for the min- istry. In 18tJ0 he graduated at the theological sem- inary at Princeton, N. .J., and immediately went into the employ of the Board of Domestic Missions, laboring for several months in the vicinity of Luzerne, Warren County, N. J. Subsequently he accepted a unanimous call from Lick Run Church, Jacksonville, Pa. ; was or- dained and installed .July, 18G2; and, after a short pas- torate of two years and a half, died Dec. 31, 1864. Sir. Patterson was a systematic, practical, earnest minister. See Wilson, Fresh. Hist. A Imanac, 1866, p. 140. (J. L. S.)
Patterson, Nicholas, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Path Valley, Cumberland County, Pa., Oct. 1, 1792. He pursued his preparatory studies first in Chambersburg, Pa., then in the academy at Summers- ville, N. J. ; graduated in the college at Princeton, N. J. ; studied theology in the Princeton Theological Sem- inary; was licensed in 1818, and ordained in 1821. He labored for many years in Delaware, and died in Wil- mington, Del., Jan. 7, 1865. Mr. Patterson was a simple- hearted, good man, an excellent preacher, and a favorite pastor. See Wilson, F'resb. /list. A Imanac. 1866, p. 222. (J. L. S.)
Patterson, Robert, LL.D.. an American philan- thropist and educator, was born in the north of Ireland, May 30, 1743. In 1768 he emigrated to Pliiladelphia. In 1774 he was appointed principal of the academy at Wilmington, Delaware. In the Revolutionary war he acted as brigade major. In 1779 he was appointed pro- fessor of mathematics in the Universitj' of Penns3'lvania, and then vice-provost. In 1805 he was appointed di- rector of the Mint of the United States. In 1819 he was chosen president of the American Peace Society, and later president of the American Philosophical So- ciety. He died July 22, 1824. A remarkable trait of Mr. Pattersons character, and its crowning excellence,
was his fervent piety. It influenced all his conduct from his youth. He was an elder of the Scotch Pres- byterian Church nearly half a century. In the trans- actions of the Philosophical Society he published many papers.
Patterson, Stearns, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Dunstable, now Nashua, N. II., Jan. 2, 1813. He was converted in 1826. and con- nected himself with the Congregationalist Church, to which his parents belonged. In 1829 he entered the academy at Hopkintown, and a few years later he en- tered Yale College ; but his health failing, he was com- pelled to relinquish his studies and engage in other pur- suits. From 1837 to 1840 he filled a clerkship in the city of New York. In November, 1840, he went to iNIaryland and engaged in teaching. In August, 1841, Rev. Enos R. Williams held a camp-meeting on Kent Island. Patterson attended, and was inclined towards Methodism. In 1842 he joined the Methodist Episco- pal Church on Kent Island. In August of the same year he removed to St. Michaels, Talbot County, Mary- land, and took charge of a school. On Dec. 7, 1843, he was licensed to exhort, and on Feb. 15, 1844, he was li- censed to preach, and recommended to the Philadelphia Conference. He was admitted in 1844, and appointed to Strasburgh. His subsequent appointments were as follows: Brandy wine, Cecil, two years supernumerarj', Grove, Mount Zion, Manayunk, Phcenixville, Marietta, six years professor in Wesleyan Female College in Wil- mington, Del., then to Merion Square, and afterwards to Radnor and Bethesda. In 1866 he was granted the relation of superannuate, and so continued until his death. May 19, 1871. He united in himself all the qual- ifications necessary for success in the ministry. He was devoted to God and the Church, scholarly in his habits of study, systematic in the performance of his duties, and kind towards all with whom he was brought into fellowship. See Minutes cf Conferences, 1872, p. 24, 25.
Patterson, 'William D., a Presbyterian minister, was born near Mercersburg, Pa., July 22, 1833. He re- ceived a careful parental training, graduated at Marshall College, Pa., in 1852, and at the Western Theological Seminary in 1856 ; was licensed June 17, 1858, and hav- ing preached with great acceptance for a year to the churches of Dillsburg and Petersburg, Pa., a call for his services as pastor was presented to him, which being ac- cepted, the Presbytery met, Aug. 14, 1860, to ordain and install him. But his health gave way so seriously about the time of the meeting of the Presbytery that he could not be present to be ordained; nor was he ever able after this to resume his labors. He spent some time in travelling, and died Nov. 24, 1861. Mr. Patter- son was a man of deep piety, cultivated mind, and genial disposition, and was more than ordinarily endowed for the work to which he had been called. See Wilson, Fresh. Hist. A Imanac, 1863, p. 194. (J. L. S.)
Patteson, Johx Coleridge, an English divine, whose life was one of remarkable self-denial, unremit- ting labor, and repeated exposure to perils by land and sea, was born April 1, 1827. His maternal great-uncle was the celeb-ated Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His father, judge Patteson, was a lawyer, unsurpassed in his day. Under his immediate supervision John Cole- ridge was trained until ready for Eton. He was then a bright, conscientious, painstaking boy, " ever ready for fun, but never for mischief." He was the loader in his class and of his plaj'mates. In 1845 he entered jMerton College, at Oxford University, and distin- guished himself as he had at Eton. In 1849 he ob- tained at Merton College a classical second-class, and subsequently a fellowship. After the examination for his degree he went abroad and travelled, in the com- panionship of a family whom he served as tutor, in Germany and Italy. In 1853, after his return home, he was ordained for the priesthood, and was made country parson at Alfington. He had not been there